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A Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gemünden, Gerd, 1959- author.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Series:
- Film Europa
- Film Europa ; v.5.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilder, Billy.
- Documentary films.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.
- Local Subjects:
- Documentary films.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.
- Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Other Title:
- Billy Wilder's American films
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Gerd Gemünden is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998) and editor of volumes on Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, as well as an anthology of critical writings on Marlene Dietrich. Gerd Gemünden is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998) and editor of volumes on Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, as well as an anthology of critical writings on Marlene Dietrich.
- Summary:
- With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism
- Contents:
- A Foreign Affair; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. An Accented Cinema; Chapter 2. The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice; Chapter 3. In the Ruins of Berlin; Chapter 4. Ghosting Hollywood; Chapter 5. All Dressed Up and Running Wild; Chapter 6. Being a Mensch in the Administered World; Chapter 7. In the Closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Chronology; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-190), filmography (p. [170]-181) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/17/2020)
- ISBN:
- 9781785334757
- 1785334751
- 9780857450661
- 0857450662
- OCLC:
- 855503951
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08230 hdl
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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